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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Long before the "metaverse" loomed over us, David Cronenberg's EXISTENZ (1999) imagined a completely immersive virtual environment that is even less cozy than our own. We discuss the film's porous boundary between reality and unreality, and explain why Cronenberg is one of the few Canadian filmmakers who really "gets" Canada. PLUS: Looking back at a moral panic over right-wing art from the early '90s.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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0:00.0 | A little housekeeping off the top, you may have noticed that the Michelinoss podcast has |
0:08.2 | some new art, a new logo, as well as some new conceptual art for our Patreon and Sound |
0:14.2 | Glad pages. |
0:15.4 | We commissioned this art from the great Toronto-based artist Andrew Barr, please hire him to do your |
0:20.4 | art for you. |
0:21.4 | Yeah, we went with this kind of Sergeant Pepper inspired a design featuring just some of |
0:26.6 | the characters who appear in the Michelinoss extended universe. |
0:30.4 | I mean, obviously we couldn't get everything in there. |
0:32.8 | I suppose there are probably facets of the show that, you know, we couldn't capture in |
0:37.6 | a single image, but I thought he did an absolutely wonderful job. |
0:41.7 | Points if you've listened to the show long enough to know who everyone in the image is. |
0:45.2 | There's one that I actually can't get. |
0:47.3 | I'll tell you who it is later, I know them all. |
0:50.1 | By the way, folks, if you're not a subscriber to the Michelinoss Patreon page, patreon.com slash |
0:54.8 | Michelinoss. |
0:55.8 | We had a new patrons only episode about the kids in the hall movie Brain Candy last week, |
1:01.6 | as well as recent episodes on the new Ricky Gervais Netflix special and the Larry the |
1:06.4 | Cable Guy classic Delta Fars. |
1:08.7 | Yeah, for Crass Business Reasons, we're going to keep announcing our Patreon on the free |
1:13.3 | episodes because I don't know, for the three years, however long we've had it now, we've |
1:18.5 | routinely failed to do that. |
1:20.3 | And I need to put my kids through college, folks. |
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